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Jun. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

San Francisco’s Housing Crisis Explained

  A long article (highly abridged here) by Kim-Mai Cutler in TechCrunch from last year that Eli Goldberg thinks is…
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Jun. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

Are young people leaving Vancouver?

It’s almost conventional wisdom: young people are leaving (or not coming to) Vancouver because they can’t afford to live here;…
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Jun. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: It’s in the timing

Dianna notes a difference between Vancouver and San Francisco: . How to distinguish between group bike rides in Vancouver and San…
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Jun. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Affordable Housing Plan in San Francisco

Another city that’s seriously trying to address the affordable housing challenge: . If you think Vancouver is expensive, San Francisco…
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May. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

The City As Workout: Hayes Valley

From the Daily Scot: The removal of the Central Freeway in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighbourhood has gifted the city…
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May. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: The Liberation of Hayes Valley

When you think of freeway removal, San Francisco’s Embarcadero Freeway along the city’s waterfront immediately comes to mind.  Structurally unfit…
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May. 07, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Bar and Bowl

Scot in SFO: What if you could go bowling in Downtown Vancouver like you can in Downtown San Francisco?  Layering…
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May. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

NYC vs SFO

This cartoon series from writer and comedian Sarah Cooper by way of CityLab (by way of Frank Ducote). . More here.…
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Apr. 29, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Green walls in San Francisco

Scot finds fiscus: Ficus vines add a new layer and dimension to these simple structures breaking up building mass and…
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Apr. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Walking in San Mateo

Scot tries to cross a street in Silicon Valley: While San Francisco is a pedestrian paradise, suburbs like San Mateo…
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Apr. 27, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Santana Row

Scot in San Jose: . . On my recent visit to the Bay Area I had an opportunity to walk…
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Apr. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

Transit in the Bay Area: All the problems we have solved

From sfgate: ‘Seamless’ Bay Area transit system proposed to attract new riders Monday, March 30, 2015 The Bay Area’s tangle…
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Apr. 17, 2015 / Gordon Price

Growth and the Suburban Chassis in the Silicon Valley

A revealing piece by Granola Shotgun: . Growth and the Suburban Chassis . I tend to explore what happens to suburbs…
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Apr. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

Castro widens its sidewalks – 7

We’ve been following the progress on San Francisco’s Castro Street as they widen the sidewalks – the last time here in October…

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